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&/-> -r^-^ - ? "T". <-*1. \' ^ r-agjg?iwcMM '' ^181 eSiv-Av -'. -. - -.; ?"*&??ri3M pST' i ~ '38&&3&3gS9H[^H ^vSv"-v" " " ' " The Bamberg Herald. I S^i' . - ?2*65 ite^ ' A - '-^&3k i | ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 4. 1903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. | ' % ^ 'r<' L .<*? FRIGHTFUL DE Gathered by Appa City of Gainef HITS NEW HOLLAND Number of Killed, So For as Known, Eighty-Five. ? ] LIST MAY BE SWELLED Immense Cotton Mills, Large Stores, Churches, Dwellings and Every class of Buildings Were Alike Crushed Like so Many Egg Shells, Sending People With in Them ? a Horrible Doom. Shortly after the noon hour Monday a terrific cyclone swept through Gainesville. Ga., New Holland, just north of Gainesville, and White Sulphur Springs, six miles distant, scattering death and destruction in its path. The greatest loss of life is reported in the destruction of the Gainesville r cotton mills on the outskirts of the . city, where about eighty persons were reported killed and scores injured. Eighteen persons were kiled in the city, where five large stores were blown down. The storm had driven many persons into tnese stores lor refuge and they were probably all killed. There were five hundred persons a work in the cotton mill3 when the cyclone struck. *The mill was a three story building. The first story was left standing, but baaly wrecked. The second and third floors were completely demolished and the employes canghi under the wreckage and mangled. The Southern depot was blown down. The Gainesville Iron works were demolished and several people perished in the wreck. The Gainesville Cotton Oil Mills were blown down. The old Piedmont hotel, used as a school and apartment house, was razed and half a dozen or more people were * killed in it. The Richmond hotel was wrecked and several inmates perished there. One hundred and twenty-five cottages, a school house and a church were blown away in the negro section of the town. Five brick stores on the main street were swept away. In all two hundred building were razed to the ground. Neither the Aldington hotel nor Brenau college was In the track of the tornado, and they escaped with their |nany occupants. c The cyclone first struck the town in the southern portion. It came with a frightful roar and they day was turned Into night. As people fled from the storm, they were caught In the wind and bodily blown in all directions. Houses reeled and rocked and then the fury of the cyclone burst upon the city. Some houses were torn into fragments; others were lifted from their foundations and carried intact for "blocks; roofs sailed through the |3r like leaves and many persons were picked up in the storm and carried bodily over the trees and houses for long distances. 4 Even above the roar of the cyclone could be heard the shrieks of the in" Jured and the moans of the dying. Wildest excitement prevailed everywhere. The city was wrapped in inky blackness for a few moments. The cyclone was terrific in its fury. It swept railroad cars from the tracks and carried them out of sight in the air. The cyclone tore down all the wires leading into Gainesville except those of | CASTRO BLOCKING TRADE. London Enters Vigorus Protest * Against Closing of Custom Houses. - The London foreign office has cabled the British minister in Caracas, Venezuela to protest against President -Castro's decree closing the custom houses on the Gulf of Paria and at Ciudad Bolivar, cables The New York Herald's 'correspondent at Port of Spain, Trmidaa. The enforcement of this decree means the stopping of the steamers of the British and American Orinoco companies and cutting off the oeef supply for Trinidad. MILITARY LEFT CEMETERY. Balked Wheni Lyons, Colored Minister to Liberia, Arose to Speak. The military of Staunton, Va., and a number of spectators -withdrew from the Decoration day exercises at the National cemetery Saturday when Minister Lyons, the United States representative in Liberia, wno is a negro, arose to speak. It is claimed an agreement had been made with the keeper of the cemetery that only white people would take part in the exercises. CONVICT LABOR WINS OUT. Important Decision Rendered Againsx th? Municipality of Atlanta. Judge J. H. Lumpkin in the superior court at Atlanta. Ga? Monday handed down his opinion, in the injunction case of the Chattahoochee Brick Company vs. City of Atlanta, holding that the ordinance passed by council to p:> vent the use of material made by convict labor in public improvements was unconstitutional. !ATH HARVEST ling Cyclone in the sville, Georgia. 1 the Southern Bell Telephone company. These wires were used by the survivj ors to communicate with the outside j world, being tendered by the telephone i officials free of charge. HORROR AT NEW HOLLAND. A oar reached Gainesville from New Holland Springs at 12:40 Tuesday morning and the conductor stated that thirty-nine dead bodies had been recovered so far, and that there are 117 injured at that place. A courier from near White Sulphur Springs, six miles north of Gainesville, reports that that place was destroyed totally. White Sulphur is a summer resort, and, as It opened lor the season a few days since, it is feared that fuller returns will reveal another horror. The place is one mile from the railway. The Dead at Gainesville. As far as could be ascertained at a late hour Monday night, the following people were killed: General Cumming, Homer Ash, Gordon Ash, Maude Gordon, Miss Loggins, Mary Duncan. Miss Woody, ? C. Knowtes, Miss Loggins, Ed Nabors, Mrs. J. M. Camp and baby Waddell. Ethel Lile, Lula Jackson. Miss Clack, Claud Shedd, Annie Garrett. Jack Murphy, Grady Lee, Dorothy Sloan, Ed Nagles, Mrs. Nathan Jones. Baby of Howington. The list of fatally injured was placed at thirty-one. Dead at New Holland. Mrs. H. H. Nelson, Will Tatum, Myrtice Westmoreland, Maggie Westmoreland, Mrs. H. L. Nix, Mrs. Neeley, Mrs. Janie Ledford and baby, Mrs. J. It. | White and two children, baby of Mrs. McGee, Mrs. M. W. Eobo, Bennie Hendrix, Mrs. T. A. Coker, John J. Mayme, Mrs. Marlon Wlllbanks, two children of H. L. Phillips, Mrs. Tom Truelove, Mrs. William Westmoreland. Albert Loyd, Mrs. R. H. Pass and little son, Mrs. Able, Mrs. Bryant and little son. Those fatally injured number about ten. An Appeal for Aid. T. M. Parker,, mayor of Gainesville, has issued the following appeal: "We wish to announce to the public that a cyclone passed over the city of Gainesville today, killing one hundred citizens, wounding five hundred more and destroying a half million dollars' worth of property. We appeal to the generous public for assistance and help for the injured. Physicians and medical attention are badly needed. We are unable to cope with the situation. All money should be sent to D. S. Fitzgerald, cashier First National bank, Gainesville. "T. M. PARKER, Mayor." VERITABLE VALLEY OF DEATH. Many People Drowned Along the Overflowed Kaw River In Kansas. A dispatch from Manhattan, Kas., says: Not since the Galveston flood has water created such havoc and wrought such terrible destruction of life and property as has just been experienced in the Kaw valley of Kansas. The territory affected stretches from Brookville, Kan., to Kansas City, a distance of 200 miles* by from three to fifteen miles in width. Almost the entire territory is submerged in water from one to fifty feet deep. The loss to cattle, homes, barns, fences and crops will run into the millions. Boatmen who have reached Manhattan report many persons missing. Keep Takes Oath cf Office. Charles Hallam Keep, of Euffalo, recently appointed secretary of the treasury to succeed Milton E. Mills, resigneu, nas swwiu mtu umto, THIRTEEN WERE VICTIMS. Complete List of Fatalities Resulting from Wreck on the Southern. A special from Birmingham, Ala., says: It is now reported that in addition to the eight trainmen who were killed in the Southern railway freight wreck at Bryan, five tramps, four negroes and one white man, were killed and burned. The bodies of none of the missing men have been recovered. Two engineers, Samuel Johnson and W. T. Acker, were taken out alive, but afterward died. All the other dead men were cremated. A score or more of loaded cars were burned LOWELL COTTON MILL8 RESUME. Gates Are Opened But Only 4,000 of 18,000 Workers Responded. The gates of the Massachusetts.. Merrimack, Bootte, Tremont and Suffold, Hamilton and Appleton cotton mills, at Lowell, Mass., which have been closed for nine weeks by reason of labor troubles, were opened Monday. The Lawrence mills, which were partly Hnspd. also resumed. Only about 4.000 operatives responded out of about 18.000, who had been idle. trusted operator slept. Blame for Deadly Wreck on Southern Placed on Gruver. Superintendent M. M. Richev, of the Southern Railway, announced SaturI day that it had been officially determJ ined the cause of the wreck in which I eight trainmen and one white hobo ! had been killed, was the fact that the ! operator, named Gruver. at Jefferson. I was asleep at his post and failed to dej liver a passing order to train N'o. 73. I THE NEWS OF A WEEK { | IN SOUTH CAROLS A, | Gantt Visits Atlanta, The Ailanta Journal says: Secretary of State John T. Gantt, of South Carolina, was one of the callers at the capitol yesterday. *;r. Gantt is on a visit to relatives in Atlanta and while here paid his respects to the capitol officials. * * * Death Watch Near Tillman. Last Friday, at Columbia, Winter Gantry was led to the gallows from a cell opposite that occupied by James H. Tillman. Tillman is said to have been very nervous for several days. He followed the trial of Cantry closely. Cantry, who was a negro, was convicted of killing a colored woman when he was drunk. * * * Blind Tigers More Subdued. Governor Heyward has expressed himself as pleased at the dispensary In "D c frnm Si I uauuu ILL ^iiaii^otwu. ii^ung tho constabulary department show that the blind tigers In that city are not so bold as they were. The constabulary has been more than selfsupporting during the last, quarter, a record which it is believed has not been excelled"at any other time during the history of the dispensary law. # * * * Tobacco Warehouse Burned. One of-the large tobacco warehouses of Schoolfield, Boatwright & Co., at Mullins, Marion county, was destroyed by fire at an early hour one morning the past week, resulting in a loss of about $18,000, only partially covered by insurance. By hard work th-e fire was confined to the one building, which contained 100 hogsheads of tobacco. * * * May Reorganize Bank. The first meeting of ine stockholder of the City bank of Greenwood, which suspended payment some time bark, was held a few days ago. The committee of three appointed by the directors to look into the affairs-of the bank made its report. The report states that if the bank were to be liquidated at onca the stockholders rormlrt cpt K5 ner rent or linwards of their stock after depositors and creditors had been paid in full. Several propositions were made the stockholders by neighboring banks, but none of them was made public. It is believed the bank will be reorganized and continue business. * Hack Takes a Tumble. A special from Seneca says: M. B. Gaines' hack team, while oomlng down Stump mountain one night the past week, missed the road at the most dangerous point near Tunnel Hill and rolled down the mountain. - One horse broke loose from the hack about fifty yards from the road. The other horse rolled about one hundred yards farther down the hill and was killed. A drummer, the only occupant of the vehicle besides the driver, had decided that on account of the intense darkness it was unsafe, so he had been walking for some distance when a flash of lightning revealed to Bim the danger in time to warn the driver, who jumped in the nick of time and did not go over the precipice. * * * Sudden Death? for Four Men. * P. M. Taylor, a white farmer, 40 years old, fell dead in his garden Sundar near. Antreville. Dr. John A. Robinson, a prominent physician neaf Due West, fell dead from his chair. He reached home the day before from the confederate reunion at New Orleans. The next morning he left the breakfast table, walked into the sitting room, sat down and instantly fell to the floor dead. Ed Gordon, 18 years old, fell dead at the home of his father, two miles irom Due west. The last of the quartet was James McGill, who lived near Due West. His family had spent the day at a picnic and on returning home found him dead. He was a gallant confederate soldier and was 62 years old. * ? s Want Places Under Crum. A Charleston dispatch says: Two white men are contending for a place in the custom house under the recently appointed colored collector. W. D. Crum. Collector Crum is taking the testimony in the case and will make a formal report to the treasury department. The contestants are R. M. Howell and James A. Lunn. Lunn was appointed by Crum to succeed S. E. Barnwell, who resigned an inspectorship rather than work under a negio collector. Howell claims that the appointment violated civil service laws, as he himself had been serving as a deputy inspector and was entitled to the place. Dr. Crum declares that he has vio lated no rules in appointing Lunn, but said that he would make a full report on Howell's complaint to the secretary of the treasury, as he had been instructed to do. JETT AND WHITE ARRAIGNED. Difficulty Experienced In Securing Jury for Trial of Feudists. Thomas White and Curtis Jett. who were indicted on the charge of the assassination of James B. Marcum, were arraigned at Jackson, Ky., Wednesday morning for trial, but the case was passed till Thursday at the request of the commonwealth's attorney, who stated that he believed it doubtful even if a jury could be procured in the remaining three days of the term, and that the case would result in a mistrial if not finished in that time. The world's population is increasing about 500,000,000 a centur" ACREAGE OF COTTON Shows Enormous Increase Compared With Last Year. CONDITION FALLS SHORT Something Like 224,422 Additional Acres Planted This Season, With Crop from Two to Three Weeks Late. The New York Journal of Commerce issues the results of a careful investigation of the acreage planted ?\ cot, ton, the condition of the plant and the progress of farm work. These results in brief are: First, an increase, to be exact, of eight-tenthse of 1 per cent in the area under cultivation; rf-ond, a decrease of 16.9 points in condition, and, third, agreement that the season is two to three weeksjate. In other words, au increase of 224. 422 acres is indicated, while the crop's average condition is 75. compared with 91.9 reported last year by virtually the SBjno correspondents. The returns are from 1,300 correspondents whose reports bear average date of May 24. North Carolina reports an increased area of 6 per cent, or 68,843 acres; South Carolina, 4 per cent, or 89^671 acres; Georgia three-tenths of 1 per cent, or 11.872 acres; Florida, 1 per cent, or 2,661 arres; Alabama a decrease of 3 per cent, or 109,769 acres; Mississippi a decrease of 1 per cent, or 22,701 acre?; Louisiana and Texa?, no change from last year; Arkansas, increase of 6 per cent, or 120,418 acres; Tennessee, increase of 2 per cent, or 12,150 acres; the Indian Territory an increase of 5 per cent, or 33,685 acres. In condition, North Carolina reports a decrease of 10 per cent; South Carolina of 17 per cent; Georgia of 22 per cent; Florida of 10 per cent; Alabama of 15 per cent; Mississippi of 9 per cent; Louisiana, 12 per cent; Texas, 21 per cent; Arkansas, 15 per cent; Tennessee, 10 per cent, and Indian Territory, 10 per ceit. EARTHQUAKE HORROR. Town In Asiatic Turkey Destroyed by Shocks and Two Thousand People are Killed. Advices which reached Constantinople Thursday from Asiatic Turkey show that a terrible earthquake occurred April 29 at Meiazghard in the vilayet of Van, SO miles southeast of Erzeroum, on the Euphrates. The town was totally destroyed, with its entire population, numbering 2,000 souls, Including 700 Armenians, as well as the troops forming the garrison of Melazghard. In addition, over -100 houses in neighboring villages collapsed. 1 The foreign offk?e at London has also received some details from the British consul at Erzeroum regarding the disaster, according to which a strong shock lasting thirty seconds, 1 was felt on the morning of April 29 throughout the entire district between Lake Van and the Russian frontier and as far west as Kharput. The town of Melazghard, consisting of five hundred houses, was destroyed and much havoc was wrought in the surrounding villages. Colonel Khalil Bey, commanding the garrison at Meiazgnnra, witn nis wnoie family, three other officers and eighty soldiers perished in the ruins. Lieui tenant Colonel Tayib Bey, whose family perished, became insane. The telegrapn opo/ator who sent the news of the catastrophe said he himself wts badly injured, and that his wife and sister had been killed. The foreign office has appealed for subscriptions for the relief of the destitute Mohammedants and Christians of the Melazghard district. Five Years for Eoodier Hannigan. i Five years in the penitentiary was the verdict returned at St. Louis ; Thursday evening by the jury in the ; bribery case of J. J. Hannigan, a former member of the house of delegates. Hannigan was found guilty of accepti ing a bribe. STEAMSHIP GOES TO BOTTOM. From Fifteen to Twenty of Her Passengers Reported Drowned. Advices irom Antwerp, ueigium state that the British steamer Hutl dersfield, Captain Ilammon, whicl sailed from that port Tuesday foi i j Grimsby, England, collided with the ;" Norwegian steamer Uto. The Hud | dersfleld is reported to have foundered i From fifteen to twenty of her passen gers are said t ohave lost their lives i The crew were s-aveo. The passengers were mostly seamen returning to Eng land. RACE TROUBLES IN TERRITORY. ' White and Black Citizens Cannot Live in Peace and Good Will. Seventeen prisoners charged with rioting in Braggs, Indian Territory, arrived in Muskogee Tuesday in charge of Deputy United States Marshal AdI ams. Their arrest was the result of ' trouble between negroes and whites ; which began at Draggs Sunday. Three i r>* rho nriarmors are neerocs. All e.S . V'l V >/ ? w cept two are farmers. i j HANNA'S ACTION APPROVED. i Senator is Heartily Congratulated by i Party Leaders in OhTo! Senator Hanna received a large number of cbngratulatorv telegrams Wednesday concerning his decision not to further oppose an indorsement of President Roosevelt's candidacy for a second term at the coming state convenI tion. Many of the telegrams declared that in taking the step Senator Hanna had done much to preserve harmony in the ranks of the party. MAGHEN ARRESTED Postoffice Employee Out of Frying Pan Into the Fire. RECEIVED BRIBE MONEY Postmaster General Payne Follows Up Suspension With a Dismissal and Then an Order for Immediate Arrest. ???? A Washington special says: By far the most sensational development of the postoffice investigation up to thia time occurred Wednesday, when August W. Machen, the general superintendent of the free celivery, was arrested on a warrant issued upon information of postoffice inspectors charging hlra with having received 'Takeoffs" from contracts made with the local firm of Groff Bros, for a patent postal box fastener. The warrant speclflI cally changes him wlfch having rec?ivod I - - ? ~ - #? - i i l o iftiw T* 4 a f8 since Aujju>i o, j.?7v/v. tv *? alleged, however, at the department that this amount doe* not represent all that Machen obtained In connection with those contracts, It being charged that he has profitei by them for several years prior to the date of the first contract mentioned. Other arrests are to follow. Immediately after Mr. Machen was taken into custody, the postmaster general issued an order removing him from office. He had been practically under suspension for a fortnight, pending the investigation into hie bureau. The discovery of Machen'a alleged in* terests in the contracts was made quite accidentally by the inspectors i some three weeks ago and sines then i their energies have been directed Goward mahmg out a case. After the authorities had become convinced that they were in possession of the neces- j sary evidence, Mr. Machen was notified to appear at (he department Wednesday morning. He did bo and waa subjected k> a "sweating" process by the inspectors and Mr. Bristow for three hours, but i no admission that he had profited By the contracts could .be secured from ! him. Ke declined to answer many j questions on the ground that they related to his private business, but in- I slsted to the end tial he had. not ro j cetved a cent improperly. Neverthe- j less, he was arrested on the warrant which had been prepared and taken before a United State commissioner, where his attorney Immediately demanded a full hearing. Aeetetant Dis-j tri-ct Attorney Taggmt, however, was not ready to proceed with the case and the hearing was set for June 5. Mr. Machen gave a $20,000 bond, furnished by a Philadelphia bonding company, for his pppearance, declining to accept the proffer of friends to go on his bond. After his release be declined to make any statement d?yond the single declaration that the whole thing was a grand stand play and would come out all right. His attorneys declared that at the proper time they would si ow conclusively that he had been guilty of no wrong in connexion with the contracts, and on the contrary, thev would be able to show that his administration of the free delivery service had been characterized by abilfty xiid integrity. The department, officials claim that their evidence is conclusive. $ It is upderstood that civil suit vlll.be entered to recover from Machen the amount he Is alleged to have received on the contracts. j HARVEST HANDS WANTED. Jobs in Kansas Wheat Fields Await Twenty?Five Thousand Men. State .Employment Agent T. B. Ge,'ow says Kansas will need at least 25,000 men and 4,000 teams for the wheat I I i tj!? aeHmoh.e arp mfldfi from Lidl VCOl. lAlO WObAUA Vf ^ ?, v reports received from every township I In the state. There are no idle m^n in Kansas, so It will be nocssary to import harvest hands from tfce neighboring states. _ There is a great scarcity of horses and mules In the state. This is caused by the fact that during the Boer war thousands of Kansas animals were purchased by the British and taken to Africa. FEUDISTS BUYING AMMUNITION. Every Store ir> Disturbed Section of Kentucky Doing a Rushing Business. A special from Louisville. Ky., says: Every general store in the feud-ridden district of Breathitt has received a consignment of ammunition during the past week. It is impossible to ascertain the amount of balls and cartridges shipped into Jackson and the hamlets near by W. B. Hargis, one of the principals in the Hargis-Cockrell feud, which has caused the trouble, keeps a general store in Jackson, and it is said a large consignment was sent him early in the week. TURNER RELEASED ON BONO. - - - He is Under unarges of navmy gwiu a Negro Into Slavery. Secret service men arrested and took to Montgomery Monday night J. F. Turner, a prominent white man, of Dadeville, Ala., charged with peonage. He sold one Dave Johnson, a negro, { into slavery. This is the third arrest, ! and it is learned that before long three i more will be arrested. Turner was released on a $2,000 bond. COTTON SPECULATOR SUICIDES. Health Shattered by Loss of Fortune Emmett, Departs Hence. His health undermined by business worries and his mind unbalanced for ! several days. Frank Emmett, a promi! nent. cotton broker who retired from | business a few days ago, has ended his life with a pen knife at New Orleans. Emmett was a member of the Cotton Exchange and had been successful in business. He leaves a wife and 3ix children. APPEAL BY GOVERNOR. Georgians are Asked to Aid the Sorely Stricken Storm Sufferers of Gainesville and New Holland. While the first quiver of pity for storm-mangled Gainesville still swept the great, warm heart of the people I of Georgia, Governor J. M. Terrell sat down and pennod an appeal for aid. As the terrible news came clicking in the governor was informed of each newly learned detail of the whole sad story. He was deeply touched and early in the evening prepared his appeal, which was transmitted to the Atlanta Constitution for publication. With the official communication, the call upon the sympathies of the people j of the state, came ,425 in cash, the the fund. He spoke of the never-failing sympathy of Georgians for their fellow-citizens, and expressed confidence in a quick and bountiful response to the bitter cry of anguish and suffering from Gainesville. This is his appeal in full: "to rne reopie 01 ereurgia.?me u-ijTible calamity visited upon the people of Gainesville today by the fury of a storm that left, about two hundred dead in lt3 wake and a thousand in need of immcdiite aid. calls for a quick and heroic response from the humanity of our state. "Georgians are noted for their readiness to go to those in need, and I feel that I can call on them in this unusual hour to contribute quickly and liberally to their fellow Georgians dying and to hundreds whr, though living, are left in hunger and despair. "As governor, I urge the people of the state to send contributions to Hon. T. M. Parker, mayor, or D. T. Fitzgerald, cashier National bank, who will apply same to meet the pressing necessities of the people of that city and vicinity, that have * eon rendered destitute by the storm. "J. M. TERRELL, Governor. "Atlanta, Ga., June 1, 1903." TEXTILE MILLS CLOSED. Great Strike, Involving About 90,000 Operatives, on In Philadelphia. A general strike of textile manufacturers was inaugurated in Philadelphia Monday, involving about 90,000 operatives. Of the 600 firms engaged in the textile Indus'"y in the city, forty-seven have granted the demands of the union, and their plants, employing about 15,000 operatives, are in operation. Ail of the sixtj*-three ingrain carpet mills are idle, affecting directly 3,000 weavers and 10,000 hands in different departments. The dyers, who are said to control the situation, are on a strike with the exception of those of the Berkshire mill's in the northeastern section of the city, which has conceded the fifty-flve-hour week and increased the wages of the men from $12 to $13 a week. The ingrain carpet weavers are asking, besides *the flfty-flve-hour week, i 10 per cent increase in wages. The mill of John and James Dobson employing 2,000, was closed indefinite ly Monday morning. The workmen were notified that they could return tc work at the present rate of wages, otherwise the mill would remain closed. Thirty-nine branches of the trade are affected by the strike, and the capital invested in the mills is estimated at $1,000,000. T-he daily loss will amount to $125,000. The manufacturers admit that the operatives are in a position to close all the mills not granting their demands. This is due prin ?? - ? clpally to the Importance of the dyers' branch of the Industry. SOUTHERNERS ARE ANXIOUS. Congressmen Dubious About Promises Made to Their Constituents. Postmaster General Payne has created a panic among those congressmen who had orders under the Machen regime for the extension of the rural delivery system In their respective districts which were to go Into effect July 1. The senators and representatives from all parts of the country are dally arriving In Washington to ascertain what has become of the promises they made to their constituents, that the extension of the rural free delivery system was to take place at the beginning of the next fiscal year. " TOPEKA OFFERED FEDERAL AID. I ? . ? U T--I-. Un in President nooeevciw ici^id^na tw That Effect to Governor Bailey. President Roosevelt telegraphed Monday from Cheyenne to Governor I Bailey, of Kansas, offering the assistance of the federal authorities If needed as follows: "Cheyenne Wye., June 1. "Hon. W. J. Bailey, Topeka. Kans.: "Am Inexpressibly shocked at reports of dreadful calamity that has befallen Topeka. l'f there is anything the federal authorities can do of course let me know. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." IN A HURRY TO STRIKE. Twelve Textile Mills in Philadelphia Forced to Cease Operations. Although the strike of the textile , workers of Philadelphia for a fifty J four-hour week was set for Monday. J the suspension was practically inau , gurated at quitting time Friday night - * -? i During the day the employees cu figm additional mills stopped work before the closing hour, making twelve mills already on strike.. LUMBER DEALERS LOSE OUT. i ~ Mississippi Judge Allows Railroads of 8tate to Raise Their Rates. / j At Jackson, Miss., Federal Judge Henry Niles has dissolved the tempo r&ry injunction granted the lumber . dealers of Mississippi some days ago j restraining the rallroads-from inoreas ing the rates on lunjtfer 2 cents per j hundred. j The decision is the most import an* decided in the state for many years the lumber business being the largest several r*ilroads handle. ' ? : S SCENE OF APi North Topeka Sw< and Flame and MOST DIRE DISASTER ? i Situation in the Two Kansas Cities Also Most Appalling. FLOATING HOUSES AFLAME Owing to Inability to Traverse Flooded Sections, no Accurate Account of Lives Lost or Amount of Destruction Wrought Can Be Secured. With 175 or 200 lives lost, millions ot dollars of property destroyed, hundreds of pistol shots as signals of distress, blended with the agonizing cries of unwilling inhabitants of treetops and roofs of houses, and the waters creoping upward and then slowly subsiding and alternately changing hope to despair, Topeka, the capital city of Kansas, passed the most memorable Sabbath day of its existence. Through all this discomforting condition of affairs was added the presence of a dismal rain. The ardor of the rescue work of the heroic rescuers was not abated by the conditions which confronted them. For long dreary hours, knee deep in water and sometimes in water up to their necks, they worked with might and main. Awful Work of Flood. Briefly stated, the condition of the flood at last reports was as follows: One hundred and seventy to two hundred people drowned; eight thousand people without homes; four mflLion dollars' worth of property destroyed; identified dead five;, floating bodies seen, twenty; people missing, two hundred; banks collapsed, two; wholesale grocery stores flooded, two; big business blocks almost ready to crumble, fifty; wholesale commission houses deserted, sis; city water works plant useless. The known drowned are: Karl Rupp, Orivillele Rupp, two Rupp girls, n tt riom-affn "-trcot-_r?lrl ann. t.wentv u. n . vjr?niv?tfco <j .- , ? ? , bodies unidentified. Leading men have made a careful examination of the flood and all Its conditions, and as a result of their investigation they give 160 as the probable number of lives lost. A more conservative estimate places the number of dead at 175. The higher number is ' as apt. as the lower. The number of dead is merely a matter of estimate. Twenty members of'the rescuing parties tell of how they saw people drop from houses only to be swept away by the flood and others tell of men who, terrified at the approach of the Are, dropped into the water, where they sank and did not reappear. ' This estimated number of dead does not include the large number classed as missing who cannot otherwise be accounted for. Neither does it include the number who are supposed *" VfVinli" Ifvca In tVlC flrft (AS Ijavo i\JOL lUbll Itl vu ? f~ In the latter class there is absolutely no means of arriving at even an approximate number of victims. The water was so high and the current so strong that all that could be done immediately was to rescue those in the buildings surrounded by water. It will be at least three days before the correct number of dead will be decided on. Work of rescuing the vie- j tims of the flood is pushing forward i with great vigor. FLOATING HOUSES AFLAME. The following special was sent out from Topeka Saturday night: The fire which began in North Topeka, already surrounded by water, Saturday afternoon raged until past midnight. ? Four hundred houses have been | burned, and, as near as can be learned, about one hundred and fifty persons are dead. Most of these were burned to death. Burning houses were floating about, setting fire to others. The lower story of the burning buildings contained ten feet of water. The current was so strong that no boat could approach any of the burning buildings. People were gathered on the tops of houses and met death either by fire ot burning. The cries for help could be distinctly heard a mile away. The whole city was wildly exciteded because of the fact that no ak. could be extended to the sufferers. The river at North Topeka is five miles wide. No possible estimate of the financial loss is obtainable, but it can be stated that it will reach into the millions. North Topeka was tne manufactur- i ing district of the city. Three large KILLING AT NEGRO CHURCH. Two Men Meet Instant Death and Annther Ir Probablv Fatally 8hot. - ' * . A dispatch from Williamson, Ga., says: Two negroes?Andrew Hood and Ed Hood?were shot and instantly killed by Sandy Dickinson, and an other negro?Will Jones?was probably fatally shot by the same negro near Free Liberty church Sunday. Liquor was at the bottom of the trouble. Sandy Dickingdn, who did the shoot'ng, has not Jx^en arrested. ^ DE/yl> HEROES HONORED. Memorial Day Observed in Waehlngy ton on Most Elaborate Scale. With solemn and Impressive ceremonies, memorial day was observed in Washington Saturday on a more elaborate scale than ever before. Business was suspended, not only in the departments of tne government, but also throughout tJhe city. People of ill classes united in perpetuating the memories of the countless thousands )f heroes, both union and confederate, ; who lay sleeping in the cemeteries I around Washington. [ .'--O, ^ . ' -* 'ALLING RUIN ipt by Both Flood Hundreds Die. 0M flour mills, three woolen mills and other manufacturing enterprises are entirely destroyed. Tne water supply of the whole city has been cut off. Rain began falling shortly after midnight and this had a tendency to check the fires in the dwellings. KANSAS CITY INUNDATED. With the Kaw and Missouri rivers nearly four feet above the disastrous level of 1881, and their swollen tide spread over 12 square miles of the city ' and its suburbs, Kansas City ounday jgg night was In the worst flood of Its history. In the valley of the Kaw. or KansaS river, between Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kana report has it that a number of lives has -.7. been lost. One report says fourteen and another fifty. Twelve bodies were yjjgg counted as they floated past during the day. The financial loss has been increasing and b.ds fair to continue. The heaviest loss is at Armourdale, where . the lapses to the packing industry .& others is placed conservatively at $2,500,000. Argentine, another suburb, has suffered losses estimated at |5C0,000. Other losses which cannot now /| be estimated wfll increase the totai very materially. . . . < Armourdale, with a population of 16,000 people, Is deserted, and its site marked only by the tops of buildings ~|g| and a number of fires. The Kansas City, Mo., Times of Monday morning published the following list of dead: James Deerman, William Herbert, ^ express man, Armourdale, drowned ;.Jg with two others; five persons, three . ^ men and two women, drowned by cabsizing of a boat near Union Pacific bridge; three persons, a man and two women, In capsized boat, disappeared s A north of the Missouri Pacific shops; unknown man, seen to fall from ait Tjg abandoned Belt Line locomotive into Jgi the flood; William Heisler, truck driver, drowned in the east bottoms; two men reported drowned at Electric \ ;>?| nark- Phllln Ware, negro, aged 10 vj? years, drowned; unknown man, body :3jj| drifted under "L" bridge. No bodies have been recovered. A message to The Times from Kan- ^ sas City, Kans., by way of Leavenworth, at 2 o'clock Monday morning, was as follows: "Twenty-Seven men were on the Union Pacific bridge, which spanned the Kansas river, whan it went down, and all of the men were : . drowned. It is said that many .persons saw the helpless men drown." At Kansas City,- rLans., and in the suburban towns of Armourdale" and Argentine and at Harlem and Sheffield. Mo., near Kansas City, Mo., an ^ aggregate of 10,000 persons have b^en 7 J| forced to leave their homes and eight -;sd thousand employes of the numerous packing houses and railroad shops in , 7^ the bottoms are out of employment The situation summarized follows: Hcsts of Homeless. Kansas?North Topeka, 7,000; near ^ Emporia, 500; Salina .and vicinity, 800; Lawrence. 5^0; Kansas City, Armourdale and Argentine, 10,000. Missouri?Harlem and Sheffield, 700. Iowa?Deg Moines, 6,000; Ottum- ,>3| wa, 200. Nebraska?Lincoln, 200; Beatrice, --^?1 Financial Losses. Kansas?North Topeka, $1,000,000;. fWe. Lawrence $100,000; Concordia, M $100,000; Abilene and vicinity, $300,- ,^| 000; Salina and vicinity, $160,000; 4|3 Solomon, Chapman Detroit and Woodbine and intervening country, $400,- . 000; Des Moines, $500,000. STORM STRIKES ATLANTA. One Death and Three Fires by Lightning?Traffic Badly Blockaded: * One death, thr^ fires, the disruption of the street oar system' akd the crippling of the telephone, electric light, telegraph and police signal system3, were the more serious results ' of the storm which visited Atlanta, Ga.,-Sunday afternoon. Miss Lflla Higgins was struck by 1 * *?* ? J " W/\nf inotontlv lignizring tuiu tmuvot 1UC u?i* 1/1J - i ' ' MT The Georgia Avenue Prescyterlan ^|| church was struck in two places" by lightning and was burned to the ground. Two residences, which adjoined the Jjf church, were badly damaged by fire. Thirty-eight trolley cars of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company had their fuses burned out and became * vj inoperative. Pour otners were derail- -M ed by sand and mud being washed - >? upon the track. The entire system was "ij? disrupted for about two hours. The electric- lighting system of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company was rendered inoperative from about 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon on? s?| til 7 o'clock at night. FLOOD 81TUATION IN NEBRASKA. Roads Tied Up, Bridges Carried Away gg and Farmers Ask Aid. A special from Lincoln, Neb., says: Help was asked Sunday tp rescue | 'J farmers imprisoned by the floods. The Blue river nas gone down two feet at Beatrice, but .arther up, near || Crete, the rise Sunday was sumcieni to carry down bridges. Railroads are tied up. Hundreds of wagon bridges have been carried out by the flood in southern Nebraska. """^mmmmm 5 SIXTEEN NEGROES DROWNED. Two families in Frail Boats are Sent Down to Watery Grave. Sixteen negroes, composing two families of cotton plantation cotton hands, were drowned in the Mississippi river near Pecan Point, forty miles ; ; north of Memphis, Saturday. They left the plantation after dark in two skiffs. Waves from a passing - vessel capsized the frail boats and all hands, save one, went down. A lad, Will Bell, escaped by clinging to an - ^ oar. He was washed ashore and re- " ^ ported the awful tragedy.